The Gen X/Z Exchange: Navigating Career, Purpose & Modern Life Across Generations
Ever find yourself wondering why you aren’t happier, where your career is going, or why life suddenly feels uncertain — even when everything looks fine on paper?
If you’ve ever felt stuck, off-track, or unsure what comes next, you’re not alone.
The Gen X/Z Exchange is a life navigation podcast where a Gen X dad and his Gen Z daughter explore the biggest challenges facing modern life - from career direction and purpose to relationships, wellbeing, identity and the changing world of work.
Across generations but facing many of the same questions, Chris and Lily bring honest conversations and real-world perspective to the uncertainty so many people feel today. Chris has navigated layoffs, career pivots and the realities of midlife change, while Lily is figuring out early career decisions, identity and adulthood in a fast-changing world.
Together, they bridge generational perspectives to help you:
- make sense of career and life transitions
- navigate work and purpose in a changing economy
- improve relationships and wellbeing
- feel less alone in the challenges of modern life
These aren’t expert lectures or quick fixes. They’re candid conversations about figuring life out - together.
If you’re navigating a career change, questioning direction, dealing with midlife or quarterlife uncertainty, or simply trying to understand how life looks different across generations, this podcast is for you.
Follow us now and join a growing community learning how to navigate modern life - one honest conversation at a time.
The Gen X/Z Exchange: Navigating Career, Purpose & Modern Life Across Generations
Leaving the UK - where could you go and how would you do it?
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Are you thinking about leaving the UK?
Maybe you’re struggling with the cost of living. Or fed up with how broken the country feels right now. Perhaps you’ve been somewhere on holiday and thought ‘It would be so great to live here!’
But what about the post-Brexit practicalities of getting a visa and making the move, and the downsides?
We delve into all of this in this episode. Whether you’re Gen Z or Gen X, we talk about where you could go, how you’d manage the move and how to manage the possible downsides.
You’ll learn:
- What Gen Z talks about as to why they’re think of leaving
- The practicalities and downsides of a move
- Gemini’s shortlist of the most attractive English-speaking and European countries to move to (based on ease of entry, cost of living, expat lifestyle and employment prospects)
- Gemini’s recommendation as to whether dissatisfied Gen Z’s and Gen X’s should stay or go and why
- The probability that life in the UK might actually get better
So if you’re getting increasingly fed up with what life is like for you in the UK right now, listen in and discover how a move abroad could be easier than you think!
Hit play now.
1.08 Why Chris moved abroad in 1999
2.24 How seriously are Gen Z’s considering moving abroad?
5.20 The top countries people are moving to according to some Reddit threads
5.40 ONS stats on emigration
7.00 What Gen Z talks about as to why they think about leaving
10.10 The downsides of moving abroad for Gen Z
12.39 The practicalities for Gen X
14.43 The downsides of moving abroad for Gen X
15.24 Gemini’s shortlist of the most attractive English-speaking countries for British citizens
17.14 Gemini’s analysis of the most attractive European countries
18.59 How Digital Nomad visas work
19.55 What has to change to make it worthwhile staying in the UK?
20.18 Gemini’s recommendations as to whether dissatisfied Gen Z’s and Gen X’s should stay or go and why
22.00 What’s the probability that life in the UK will improve?
23.48 What will Lily and Chris do as a result of all this?
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisperkins172/
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The Gen X/Z Exchange is a UK podcast exploring career change, purpose, wellbeing and modern life through honest conversations between a Gen X dad and his Gen Z daughter - helping you navigate life’s transitions with perspective across generations.
Send us a voice message on Speakpipe!
https://www.speakpipe.com/thegenxzexchange
Connect with us:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisperkins172/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lily-perkins-8446a82bb/
